Ken Flores: BROKE to signing w/ KEVIN HART

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'll say that on the before the coup.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Back in is ho. It is, bitch, Bro, what's the deal?
We got nervous? Uh yo yo, Kenny fucking Flores.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Flores?

Speaker 3 (00:13):
We are back in here with you, my brother. We
just want to start this off real quick.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Champagne with you.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes, you your accomplishment.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
I got a football on the camera.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Though, No, you got was crazy.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
I ain't saying nothing. Man was crazy.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
She was kind of going a little wild.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
I know, I know it was thick.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
You haven't seen the episode, go check it out. You
tell you you told us the craziest story.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
But that made me fucking pissed laughing this morning when
I real listened to it, about spirit airlines, about how
this fat bitch was next to you.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Bro, there was four seats you that you both took
up to. Hey, hey, hey your poppet.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
You gotta tell you why we're in a poppet?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Bro? Okay, tell him where actually?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Ken pop this?

Speaker 4 (01:03):
So uh before the cut we linked with Ken what
year and a half ago? About about a year year
and a half ago, literally a year to a year
and a half time frame, went from a opener to
headlining on his own tour, and uh, I don't I

(01:24):
don't know if we can say why you're in Vegas
right now?

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Can you?

Speaker 5 (01:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:28):
So while you're so, I'm showing my I'm here in
Vegas shoot my first special, official special now, like one
of those make it at home specials. And no, no, no,
it's gonna be on YouTube. But but YouTube really the
truth righting now for comedy specials. But yeah, I'm shooting
my first special with LLO Network, which is Kevin Hart's company.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:47):
They picked up ten different comedians, ten funny ass comedians
and they're e just gonna be recording their thirty minute special.
It's kind of like back in the day Comedy Central
used to have the Comedy Central Presents. It was everybody's
first thirty minute special. A lot of hell yeah some
of the go started there, you know, and that was
kind of like always a dream of mine, Uh, to
have a Comedy Central special.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Unfortunately, the company.

Speaker 6 (02:06):
Is not really what it used to be, so they
don't really mean ship no more, don't tell It is
one of the biggest companies right now that's been putting
out viral clips.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
You know. Ralph Barsa went viral on there.

Speaker 6 (02:14):
A couple of the other couple of comedians have gone
viral on there too, and they're actually the ones that
are gonna be in collaboration with the l OL Network
producing it.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
So it's like two powerhouse.

Speaker 6 (02:22):
Companies coming together. And I'm I'm the only I think
I'm the only Latino on the lineup. Uh so yeah,
it should be, should be. So yeah, my first special,
my first thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Man, congratulations to you, broh poppy popping pop ready.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh that's right, yes, sir, yes, sir.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
And I heard you're taking over Zooke Nightclub right here
at Resorts World.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
You sound like you should make radio commercials.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
And he's gonna be coming to you.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
On a Monday Sunday.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
Yeah, bro Zuke, they're gonna be shooting. They're gonna be
shooting Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. They're gonna be shooting three days,
all ten specials and ship. I'll be actually on the
first night. There's three shows that night, so I am
a little nervous because I mean every show is different
with different audiences. But it's eleven PM show on a
Tuesday night. I can I mean just walking around, I mean,

(03:23):
I got its. Monday today. I landed today and it's
already kind of dead, so I can't imagine tomorrow Tuesday
being any busier. But hopefully the people, you know, people
come out there. Not that they won't come out. I
know they'll come out, but I just hope that they
have energy, you know what I'm saying. Hell yeah, and
we're able to not have to bullshit. I have to
record again because we get one take.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
You're gonna get the energy. Trust I'm right now, bro,
We're gonna be in that hole if it's dead. Bro,
I guarantee you all know. We're all gonna sit on
separate corners. Make them box.

Speaker 6 (03:56):
Everybody should laughing to the mike, y'all laughing to the mic.
I'm excited and uh and shit, you know, it's like
I always dreamt of this day. You know, it was
like it's supposed to be a big milestone for comedians,
but it's just like now I'm so busy. It's just
kind of like another show. You know, it's just another show.
And that's kind of maybe it's those to something like
me trying to press down my emotions, trying to so
I don't get nervous myself because I got real bad

(04:17):
anxiety or like.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I told y'all before, like I've thrown up before shows.

Speaker 6 (04:21):
Ship, I've thrown up recently before it shows, you know sometimes,
but yeah, those big rooms exactly. So it was just,
you know, it's just like I'm just kind of telling
myself it's just on the show. It's just on the show.
But I know that deep down, I'm excited, and I'm
definitely nervous. I talk, I talk real fast, so I
do stutter sometimes, or I'll mix up words sometimes I'll
fuck up jokes. But when I'm up there, you know,

(04:42):
doing an hour, I can fix it go back. But
like with the thirty minutes, like if I fuck something up,
like you know that shit is taped and it's done,
you know, and I don't know, like it's not like
I'm a re record just.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
To get one joke right, you know that.

Speaker 6 (04:54):
Yeah, so I'm nervous about how that might play out
or what they will cut out, what they won't cut out.
I mean I kind of have I said already in mind,
but I think I could still change the whole thing,
you know. So it's kind of like it's not it's
not like I have it ready like right now, I
could probably like I have like two sets, and I'm
kind of like, I could do this, I could do this,
And even then, I already know that I'm not gonna

(05:14):
do either of those exactly how those are.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
I already know it's gonna be something different.

Speaker 6 (05:17):
But whatever it is, I wanted to be fucking fired,
you know, as long as it's fucking funny and fire. Yeah,
I was nervous because I people were like, oh, you
want to talk proper, you want to talk slow so
people can and I want to do that. But I
also remember, like I said, I think I even said
that to you guys last time I was on the
podcast that one of my goals is Kat Williams, you
know Pimp Chronicles Part one where he was just out
there talking fast, being himself. It was just raw, uncut.

(05:40):
So instead of I had it kind of all week,
I was thinking like, Okay, I gotta slow down, I
gotta be But in my mind I was like, you
know what, no, because I don't do it. I don't
do that type of comedy. I'm gona just give them
the shot like banger after bangages like I'm used to
doing it, and ship you know, people like it.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
They like it.

Speaker 6 (05:54):
They don't, they don't, but I'm give them the energy
that I would give any other show. So yeah, I'll
see how that goes, you know, and if it's tragicy.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Hey, but here's here's what I'll say.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
The wire has come through.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
Yeah, But from watching your content though, you're good about
just jiving if something's not going maybe your way. Because
I saw a little clip where like someone was like
heckling you and you had called her out for like
maybe looking like a.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Dude or whatever.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
But you were able to spin that and turn it
into something funny for the crowd.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Weren't you pulling a trans woman?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
I just want to take this quick second, bro, Congratulations
to you.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
You dive into everything. Bro. I just want to say,
it's super amazing to see what you've done.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Hell yeah, congratulations to you.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Thank you. I man appreciate you like y'all too. May
y'all still growing.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
Like I said last time I was here, like y'all,
gotta be consistent in order to make this ship work. It, Man,
if it takes a year, two years, like somebody's watching,
and eventually this Sh'S gonna blow up. Like I mean,
with this I wasn't even ever like planning, like I
went to l A just kind of like I'm already
riding the wave, whatever it is it is. But I
didn't ever went out there looking for agents, managers, a special.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
I just went out there to like get spots, you know.

Speaker 6 (07:05):
And I was like, once the shit started working out,
like everything kind of just fell into place on his
own because I was focused on the on the product,
you feeling like what they say, if the if the
dope is good and sell itself. Everybody came to me,
you know, And then I got Netflix is a joke.
And again that's always because you know you got you
got the right people on your team. You know, they
make sure it happen also and then again like I said,

(07:26):
just put me on the stage and I'll take care
of the rest, and they haven't. That has led to
more opportunities that I've got on my own as well,
and this special specifically, this person wasn't even I think
at the show to see me. I did my I
did a headlining comedy Store Main Room on Single and
Mayo for the Netflix Joke Festival, which is a huge

(07:46):
accomplish for myself as well. And this guy who's the
producer of a lot of Kevin Hart's first few specials
and now he's running the company at Lo L. He
he was there and he just happened to see me,
and he fucked with me, and he was he followed
me there and he went to my next spot that
same night, and I fucking destroyed that night in the
bourbon room. How they were and it was only a

(08:07):
twenty minute cent and I did. So he saw my
hour and then saw my twenty and he was like,
I need him. So that same they called the meeting
asap and they kind of wanted to just have me
on boards, like they didn't have nothing ready yet.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
They're like, we just want you, we just want you
to agree.

Speaker 6 (08:22):
Basically, it's like a like a high school student committed
to a college.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I just commit to us, yeah.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
And then something will come up. But but then like
that kind of also kind of they could shelve you. You know,
I've heard comedians that record with a lot of big companies,
companies that are supposed to be like by comedians for
comedians that they recorded special and that gets shelved. So
I just didn't want that to happen. I don't even
if they don't pay me money. As long as they're
willing to promote it, not promoted, just the production, I'll

(08:48):
take care of the promo as I know what, I
can still take us in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
So I was like, as long as they.

Speaker 6 (08:52):
Take care of like the production side, like the finances
that come with the production company and all that, I'll
do the work.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
And if they can take care of the distribution, I
don't give a fuck. That's fine. I don't care about
don't get paid now.

Speaker 6 (09:03):
I know that that, you know that footage eventually will
get me ticket sales. Guess I'm willing to take, you know,
take one in the chin in order to get to
the next step. But they actually came with a cash
offer really good, and I was just like, well, fucking
for thirty minutes of my jokes, which are jokes that
I haven't I've never done an official specially, so I'm
still kind of using them on tour, so I could

(09:24):
kind of actually get rid of this thirty minutes and
like start fresh. Yeah, So you know, I'm nervous because
then it's like all right, cool, Like I still got
a few more cities to hit with my hours that
I'm doing now, which is what I'm also gonna record,
you know, a piece of that. But I know that
once that shit comes out, wherever it comes out, it's
still not packaged. It's gonna be packaged as a package
like it's a you know, like a ten special package.

(09:44):
But they don't know how they're gonna distribute it yet.
If it's gonna be you know, on LOL everybody get
you know, get to release day like Minds might come
out one Friday November, or if they're just gonna sell
it to Netflix, you know, like Kevin Hart's LOL Live
or something like that. Right now, he's got a huge
deal with Peacocks, so it could go there. I don't
know there, but.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
All the shares.

Speaker 6 (10:11):
Peacock used to be, you know, like the free app,
and now when they got the office, they got the
live streaming. Now it's one of the top streamers and
you know in the country. So yeah, I don't mind.
I don't mind where it goes. They could go, even
if it goes straight to YouTube, as long as it
goes on their channel that has four million. I like
I said, I know that ship is good. Just get
it to the people.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
So that's that's kind of what I mean.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
Obnestly, I would love to have a Netflix spread it,
but I don't give a fuck because I'm, like I said,
I'm gonna take that footage anywhere, like like we talked
about it before, the Internet is changing our lives. So
I just just make my ship look good. I'll take
that ship. I'll clip it up. Yeah, yeah, the minimum
those ship will do. No, even those jokes I've already
put out in clips before, just the quality of a production.

(10:53):
People that have maybe didn't feel like watching me do
shitty you know, shitty volume joke or whatever, they can
I atually watch a professional where you can maybe understand
me clearly or whatever the fuck. And I know right
now I'm a lot healthier than what I was before,
so I know that I can give them like one
undred percent. Obviously I'm not the healthiest well, I'm obviously
still fat as fucked, but I know that my performance

(11:15):
will be Yeah, this is this is the right time
for this shit.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
You know.

Speaker 6 (11:18):
I don't feel like it's too soon, and I don't
feel like it was overdue. I feel like this is
perfect time because I don't think I will be ready
for an hour special at this moment. Right now, I
honestly don't think so for a thirty minute. That's that's cake.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
So I got a question, bro, So when when they
hit you with the like hey, so Heartbeats is like, hey,
we want to you know, basically buy this thirty minutes
from you? Is there a part of you that wants
to maybe pass because of how much following you have
right now and like all the clips you do, YouTube, whatever,
everything that you put out right now, do you really

(11:51):
think with the because I think you have a cult
life following, bro, like you go to any just even
Instagram or like the comics are going crazy.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Well, I guess besides take away.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Money or maybe it is money, why do you want
to like maybe jump into that distribution? Is it only
for distribution or like why is it that you want
to like sign the thirty minutes of somebody else?

Speaker 6 (12:11):
Well again, it kind of comes to timing, Like I
feel like right now is the time, you know, And
they're the ones that are on the table. Yeah, I
got offered from Comedy Dynamics. A few different like third
Release companies have the same people that have directed huge
specials like Sam Morrel Specials is recorded by James Webb,
who's from Chicago and has Actually he didn't record a

(12:32):
special for me, but it recorded a fifteen minute set
or ten minutes set, but he made it look like
real sharp, like a special, and he hit me up
offered his services and shit. So I could have done
this shit independently, but I don't have a TV credit,
Like I'm still just I'm still just the Instagram or
a TikTok comedy building.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
How do you feel about that?

Speaker 6 (12:51):
That that term though, like check's clear the same, you
know exactly, but like.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
There's a lot of people for like I don't want
to say names, but the certain like I'm a huge
I mean, you know, I'm a huge fan of comedy
bro And like I've heard people go on like the
Breakfast Club going Glad TV and they always say that term, Oh,
that's just an Instagram comic. If I'm somebody who's getting
double triple more views, then you get just on on.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Whatever credits you have movies, blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Like I would almost feel some type of way, but like,
I don't know, how do you feel about that?

Speaker 2 (13:21):
If someone were to be like, okay, floors, Oh that's
a that's a little Instagram comic.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
I mean shit, that's fine, But like this might sound cocky,
but I almost put this on Instagram because I've always
been real humble and I feel like I am genuinely humble.
I don't try to be humble from who I am,
but sometimes it's just like kind of like people think
because a lot of the product that we like right now,
I'm obviously gearing up for the special, So I'm not
gonna keep putting on material because I want to save
some of those even if it's only two or three

(13:46):
new jokes that they haven't heard on the internet.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
At least keep that to be new on the special,
you know.

Speaker 6 (13:51):
And so but I have to keep the content flowing
because it's all about, you know, keeping foot on these
motherfuckers next.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
So I do a lot of crowd work.

Speaker 6 (13:59):
My crowd work, though it is on the spot, it's funny,
it's it's genuine, you know, it's not like I'm forcing
ship and that shit's been going virals for too and
it's almost kind of came to a point where I'm
becoming the guy that people want to come see because
they know that they're gonna get roasted. Like, yeah, I'm
not scared to call you a bitch. Yeah, but I'm
not calling you a bitch as you know whatever, I'm
we're having fun.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
You know.

Speaker 6 (14:20):
I've gone as far as like pick from people's foods
and they steal away from me afterwards, take a picture
of me.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Refuse, refuse, let me take for theirs.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Like you know your venue food ain't g about sixty.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Eight hours at your last show? Yes, I was like yeah,
order bro, yeah.

Speaker 6 (14:40):
So then yeah so then after that, like so anyway,
just like I wanted to say, like if we call
me a crowd I don't really hear Instagram TikTok. I
hear a lot like a CrowdWork comic a lot that's
like like that I kind of get. Excuse me that
I get offended about because I'll tell people like that's
what with the special I'm gonna do my material. I'm

(15:01):
not gonna do no crowd work. Maybe there's a moment
I might address it, but I'm not going to be
focused on that. That's not this type of show. It's
going to be.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Because I want people to know, like, oh no, I
got that ship for real, Like.

Speaker 6 (15:12):
You have materials like I got like I started popping
off material. Now the content is the CrowdWork. But ship,
if my CrowdWork clips are doing better than your fucking
material from my crow clips are selling.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
More tickets than your Netflix special, but that's that makes
a hundred percent sense too, right where like, Yo, I'm
not going to burn a joke on Instagram because I
know it's good in this clip went really well because
I still.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Got to Netflix for whoever buy this ship. Yeah, so
like I can see how it can be almost it
can come across as like yo, this guy only those.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
CrowdWork and I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 6 (15:43):
Like I get that the special is going to be
a lot of ship that people heard already because it's
again I've been touring with this hour. I want to
You're hot joke, Yeah, but it's also like my my
my first few jokes. Also, like I want to just
dump them already. I'm tired of telling them I don't
have the same excitement. Maybe something Yeah, if it's a
cracking ass crowd, I might just ride the way. But
even like then it's just like here go this one.

(16:05):
I gotta tell And even though they're laughing, I just
i feel like I'm not giving it the same amount
of energy I would like as I'm excited to try
new ship or to even do crowd work.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
So I'm just like, you know what, it's time, like,
it's time to get And I say, I.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
Was gonna say, like, so when you know you heard
of this opportunity and you obviously knew, like you know
what you say jokes at like certain shows, et cetera,
how do you how do you start like mentally preparing
or like what were you doing? Like so like up
to obviously you're about to perform tomorrow night, So like

(16:39):
what was kind of like your process where you're like, okay,
like I'm gonna only do you know certain jokes I'm
absolutely saving, Like are we gonna hear jokes tomorrow night
that nobody's ever heard? Or is it gonna be like
a mixture of past stuff O G stuff I don't know,
not sure.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Be jokes that y'all heard before.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, I know, Like I'm I got like what we
call the.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Hits, you know what shit that you just don't know
which ones yet.

Speaker 6 (17:07):
I mean, I know which ones are gonna go, But
like there's also a structure like I like even when
I came and y'all saw me the last time I
was here, even though it was a twenty minute set,
it had a.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Flow to you.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
I feel yeah, yeah, like I opened up, I brought
everything back to it, like everything kind of led into
something else. It wasn't like, well how about the weather,
you know, like like there was no there's no chops
in my My shit goes smooth, so you feel like
I'm just talking shit the whole time, but you're dying laughing.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
So I want to keep it like that.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
But it's also like I've been on tour for a year,
doing an hour every night, sometimes twice a nile, So it's.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Like, fuck, so it's tight. How do I tie it?

Speaker 6 (17:39):
And that I know I got thirty good I know
I got thirty good minutes, But which one is like
the weaker shit that I'm already So it's ship that
I'm still working on.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Ship that it's jokes that I've been doing for like
that I stopped.

Speaker 6 (17:51):
Doing three years ago that I just now bringing back
because I'm trying to write now material, trying to you know, see,
get better at storytelling. I'm now that I'm more comfort
on stage, I'm willing to take risk with longer jokes,
you know, without because not like I said, my shit
is fast paced, but I also have to fill another
hour soon, so I gotta hell with the fucking. It's
not gonna come up with head after head after h Yeah,

(18:13):
it's just not gonna happen, like especially like I know
my work ethics, so I'm not I'm not being unrealistic
with myself, you know. So Yeah, I don't know exactly.
I know probably about five six jokes that I know
for sure are going to be on the special. Yeah,
I just don't know how I want to the hardest
thing for me is to open the show. Yeah, I
hate it because I usually open shows with like I
usually always open shows with local references.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
That's Vegas.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
I'm talking about the casino text, I'm talking about the
weather in New York, I'm talking about it in New
York culture whatever.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
I always always open the show at least two three minutes.

Speaker 6 (18:45):
I break the ice with man y'all airport and shit,
you know something that I want to like get people
feel like, okay, relatable, Yeah he's relatable.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
And then I get into my ship.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Can I say how you open the show a year
ago here in Vegas?

Speaker 1 (18:58):
I don't remember.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
I'll never forget that shit for that I was fucking crying. Bro.
So there was a host I don't know if you remember.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
It was like an Asian dude, Frank yeah, yeah, and
he was like going up there and he was he
I guess I could put it like this.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
He was he's built for comedy, bro, right, a little
awkward dude, funny And you came up right away.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Bro. The first thing you said was like, listen, I
know what you guys are gonna say, another Asian dude. Bro.
That whole room exploded.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
And to me, it's just like that's the equivalent of like,
I forget who I think it was, Ralphie May. He
used to come up, bro and be like he would
have the mic stand and he would be like, let
me move loose.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Out the way so you guys can see me.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Everybody starts dying, right And like, to me, Bro, that
was exactly that little thing right there. I mean, obviously
we already knew you, but that that that thing right there, Bro,
was so fucking funny.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
And to me, I mean obviously with you, right, but
like the seeing the whole room explode, bro, and like
right there you had everybody like right here.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
At the Palmer handro and like you killed the whole show.

Speaker 6 (19:52):
By the way, that comedy club, why is guys comedy club?
I mean to be able to come back and do
four pack shows last time I was your headlining, it's
probably if I I'm glad I'm doing the show in
Las Vegas, but I no bullshit aside all bullshit aside
my bad.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
I've been a lot of y'all all bullshit and skin.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
I had even mentioned to him like I might even
want to record something here because that room is so explosive.
I've done the same material and ate ship with it,
so that room is also that room is all and
I also got Vegas energy. I got like I'm drugs alcohol,
So it's just like they're like the we're here for that,
you know what I'm saying. So I feel like it
almost like like I said, again, I don't funk with

(20:34):
the whole vibes and timing is right, but I kind
of just funny how everything kind of landed like Vegas.
Like I feel like I never thought Vegas Vegas, like
for real, Like like I said, when I did the room,
I considered him, but I didn't even have an offer
on the table. Then have a date to shoot, nothing
like that. But I was like, that room is really good.
But also Portland, Oregon Helium Comedy Club is really good. Houston,

(20:54):
they fucking love me.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Obviously.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
Chicago is always on the in my mind, which is
where I wanted to do my first one. But I
was just like, you know what, Vegas at this point
in my life, it just feels right, like I almost died.
It almost died three times from literally partying my ass off,
like like what like Vegas like degenerate.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Baby, Yeah, let's tonight.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
But I always said tonight will be tonight, daver.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
But it just feels right, you know, it feels right
that I'm doing it here. And I mean, like I said,
I already have this.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
Like I said, we have a powerful team behind me,
not only not only my management and agents, but my
right hand mansions. Who's you know, my tour manager, Like
I got everybody's like gang up in his bit. Yeah yeah,
she's working out good. He chewed on the Milky Way.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Way fucked up, and uh, you.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Know, I was just like all right, well fuck it, man,
Like heaven Kevin Hart's name attached to something I did,
it ain't gonna hurt, you know.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, have you met Kevin like a conversation.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
We've gone to his office, like we've seen his like
podcast studio, you know, his door to say, Kevin Hard
Like it's in Hollywood, right, Hollywood, Harvey Harvey Studios. And
then he's got like lo O Network studios. Like you know,
he's got various companies, various production companies, something that focus
on stand up. He's got the serious exam Ship podcast network.

(22:23):
It's like a it's a massive coma and I mean
just walking through those walls, it's just like, holy fuck,
like this ship is for really, like that was real paper,
you know. So I'm like fucking I mean, at the worst,
even at no bread paid, if I wasn't gonna make
any money, ship, I mean still breaking right, and it's
a TV create. Yeah, I just feel like, you know, yeah,
what I like to have maybe got an hour special

(22:44):
right off bat Yes, but every great comic I feel
like that's a goat right now big started off like this.
They got their half hour and they got their hour
and they kind of earned their strikes, you know right now. Yes,
because of the Internet, a lot of these comics are
getting our specials, and sometimes that shit come out and it's.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Kind of like, yeah, it was all right, Yeah, yeah, bro,
you know, and I'm not gonna drop. I know, I
know who you're talking.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
About it, I'll.

Speaker 6 (23:09):
I see and that I'm actually cool with. Yeah, but
it's just like, but I understand them because I ain't
gonna do. I feel like I'm ready for an hour
right now.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
No.

Speaker 6 (23:17):
If Netflix came and offered me an hour, while I
take it, yes, So I just feel like this is
the right move for me right now, and I think
I'm not overstepping. It's just perfect. And it's better if
people see a half hour that's hardest fuck instead of
an hour that's like all right, So yeah, exactly for
that ship was funny. So I'd rather do the half,

(23:38):
you know. And yeah, man, And I feel like I
do have a I do have a special set of
thirty minutes. I don't have a special set of an hour, right,
you know. And I just that's just why I feel like, no,
I wouldn't. I just everything's right right now.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
I feel like, yeah, and I think recognizing that is
super important.

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Well, so let me ask you this, because what I've
been curious about is like you're you're coming up to
that fame, right, because even downstairs on the lobby as
we're walking up here, you're getting love from some fans,
they're taking pictures with you. How does that end up
translating for you over your your time frame?

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Right?

Speaker 5 (24:09):
Like so coming from where you were at at a
low point or like starting off point, I should say, so,
like getting into that fame and people recognizing you, how
does that feel?

Speaker 2 (24:18):
What did that do for you?

Speaker 6 (24:20):
I mentioned this a little bit last time I was here.
I know you weren't here at that time, but when
I was like sixteen, I went viral a couple of
times on YouTube, so I got a taste of that
kind of early. I'm not gonna say yeah people were
stopping me like they do now, but I would go
to like the local restaurant and people were like, oh,
you're the dude from YouTube, or people come up to
me at lunch and school like aren't you on YouTube?

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Or like you're in the more point of view.

Speaker 6 (24:42):
Like people weren't asking me for pictures because we're like
like another one sixte year old's not gonna ask when
they're just like.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Together, yeah, we're too cool, you know.

Speaker 6 (24:51):
But but I knew that people were looking at me different,
so I kind of got used to that, and there
was an instance where maybe one or two people did
ask me for pictures, so it wasn't the new feeling.
But then I fell off and then people were like, oh,
you're the guy that used to do you they used
to used to used to, and a lot of shit.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Was like kind of like you were that. Yeah. I
try to revive my YouTube career so.

Speaker 6 (25:14):
Many times, but like I was, I would do skits
when I was younger, but like at that time, like
it was in me to put on a wig to
you know, like Mexican minds be like. But as I
grew up older, I just always wanted to be like
I never wanted to play a character or like be
fake or have to like clock in or anything like that.
Because you see a lot of these motherfuckers that are
YouTube guys and they catch them off camera like being
racist and some other ship. What I'm saying, I'm not

(25:35):
I'm not saying I'm racist, but I'm saying like I'm
a piece of ship, like I curaged, I say dumb shit,
I might call you gay. You know, people get a
fair but I don't want to ever got to pretend
I'm not that person, Like that's who I am.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
I'm wraw, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
And it's just like that's what we gotta say when
we start saying gay in the podcast.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
But that's what I love about comedy because like Andrew Schultzy,
like he's one of my favorite comics, but I mean
he's he's coming back with like I feel like he
has like that raw kind of speech, Like you're you're
getting to a level of like we're getting back to
comedy being raw again.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
How do you feel about that?

Speaker 6 (26:05):
I mean, it just depends on the comic bro because
like even the people that you think are all there
fucking laying as fuck behind the scenes, and it's just
like one thing's a product and one thing is a person.
And I feel like mine I've been able to be
the same person and off stage, like I don't like,
if anything, when I get off stage, I'm nicer because
I'm so aggressive on stage.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
People people are.

Speaker 6 (26:30):
Going tomorrow, Like I said, I'm not I'm not gonna
do that because I'm crowd work. But I mean, like
I said, maybe i might point some ship out, but
but yeah, yeah, yeah, So it's just like I just
like anyway, just just being able to be raw. I
feel like it's more genuine than a motherfucker, because there's
motherfuckers that say the most extreme ship, but in person

(26:51):
they soft as hell, and you're just like, what the
hell And I'll tell you maybe off camera and ship
just like that's kind of fakes, still fake, even though
you're pushing boundaries, but in the sees you're kind of
like soft and you actually do get offended. That's kind
of like the ultimate fuck compared to somebody interesting. I'd
rather have somebody who acts clean on stage and behind
the scenes, like man, fuck that boosh. Like there's people
that don't curse on stage, but they'll curse all day

(27:13):
in the room like right now, you know, and that
person the motherfucker who gets up there and curses and
does seems like he's the ass. When then you see
him in person, he's like, I'm like, I'm too good
for you. I'm not saying it's not injury. I've never
managed if that shit gets to him though, it ain't that,
but I have seen people like that, So that's kind
of always kind of like I don't know, like I
feel like I don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Let's pick that up face tat, what's up?

Speaker 6 (27:36):
Like I always thought facetat was cool. I always like
face hats on females, Like I know that, I know
you should not be with a bitch with a face
hat that it's trouble, but I always found it attractive.
And I me, myself, I always wanted a face tat,
and I just like obviously not number one living in
a traditional Mexican household, it's definitely yeah, you go get

(27:58):
kicked out the house. And then number two like not
even to your family, just in real life, like you yourself,
like you could fuck up so many opportunities for yourself,
you know, like if even if you do get a
college degree later and if you I don't got no
college degree, but later on if I did, and then
I want to be an executive sumer and they're not
gonna hire my dumb ass with a face tattoo, you know.
So for me, it was just kind of like once

(28:18):
I started, like I'm not saying get it money, but
like being comfortable like knowing that like oh shit, I'm
I'm not gonna ever get a job again, Like yeah,
this is gonna be me forever, like even even if
it's like, even if I ever blow up and do
arenas and come back to comedy clubs, that's still good
living like comics that do. Like if you still at
a weekend at a comedy club, you walking around like

(28:40):
eighty grand, like you like a weekend you do like
you do like six sold out shows at an impront.
I've never done it, you know, but if you do
like six, you can walk around like eight. Philippe Sparsa
does like seven eight at the Improlse, you walked around
like one hundred grand.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, I walk out with one hundred grand.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
You know. I was gonna say, like from those six shows.

Speaker 6 (29:00):
Yes, So it's like, even so, even if you're not
doing theaters, you still make a fucking.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Killing, you feel.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
What I loved though about that is like you you
one thousand percent just bet on yourself, like you literally,
like you literally woke up, You literally woke up, and
you're like, I've always wanted to face that. I'm gonna
get a face that. And it's because I'm one thousand
percent betting on myself and I'm never gonna work for

(29:27):
the fucking man. I'm never gonna work for a corporation.
I'm ever gonna work for some fucking business. I'm working
for me to get a face.

Speaker 6 (29:35):
Yeah like that that really but I told you that
last time too. Like I was like with me, there
was there was no plan being like either this ship
work or I am going to overdose or.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Like I feel like you don't have that you need
to have that.

Speaker 6 (29:49):
I was like I was gonna be home, I was
gonna die, or I was I'm gonna say I was
gonna be in prison because I don't see myself committing
like a crime that I would have to do prison
time for. But I would like definitely have all that's
they catch me with drugs, you know, because that I
would do. But I feel like on a race to
overdo those those or on a race to make it.
And you know, I was there was like a ship
pressure make diamonds, you know what I'm saying, And yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
What you put on your teeth.

Speaker 6 (30:15):
But yeah, like it was just like where does come from?
Johnny Dang, No, Johnny thing man, Johnny who it's actually
my boy. He used to work for Johnny Things and
he used to work for jimmy boy. His name is
Gill Plug Jill. He just did John morons girls does
oh Jez's Girls money back yells girl, you like to

(30:35):
like if you get your teeth them by anybody else
besides Gill.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
You know, I love to Jimmy Boy. Jimmy Boys cool
both girls. We had dinner.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yeah yeah, I mean that's something up. We didn't get
money like you, bro. We gotta get one tooth at
a time.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
Like bro, Like this was like a long time coming
because I and I like I did it the right way,
Like I went to Houston. I wanted my ship done
in Houston from this sacific motherfucker because like I'm a
big fan of Shoreline Mafia.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Oh jeez, my favorite rapper. I've got on the phone
with him.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
We've talked and shit, so like it's just like damn,
I want like I just look up, I fuck with
him that heavy, and I'm like I ain't even go
fuck with who he fucked with. And it just happened
to be that when we were in Houston, we got into,
like I mean, just being a comedian. Like I'm not
saying I'm an urban comic, but my Crows is like
usually the hood motherfuckers. You know that doesn't always attract
you know what I'm saying the good people and ship.

(31:28):
You know, sometimes you motherfucker like they treat you like rappers.
You gotta check in like a rapper. No, it's not
necessarily like checking in somewhere. You know, I'm not gonna
drop no names and ship. But people want you to
hang out. They want to show you the city. But
it's almost kind of like you coming because you're coming,
you're feeling like, but it's love though, it's love.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
It's love.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
It's love, and these are my people actually, like you know,
like just how Drake tapping with j Prince. The Mexican's
got their people and it's just like they show hello, love.
You know, anything you need is there. They take you
to the strip club. I mean they treat you like
a celebrity. And every time, like first they get into town,
you a of the biggest rappers and they tap in
with them and they were you know they it was

(32:06):
it was good plug because then I met like the jeweler,
you know, And that's how these came about because I
had the first met the first time I met him
and I was like how much for Like He's like
you could do eight by eight, which is eight teeth
and on top eight teeth in the bottom you could do.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
You know.

Speaker 6 (32:21):
He quoted it like I think it's like like starting
off at like ten grand and then obviously you can
go all the way up to a hundred rand. I
playny more like Princess cut rolls all that shit. And
I didn't want nothing special, you know. I was like,
you know what, bro, Like I was the biggest fan
of Lil Wayne when he saw Lil Wayne shine and
it was just invisible diamonds invisible set like there's no gold,
no nothing, just all.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Glass, like not glass, the fucking all like that.

Speaker 6 (32:43):
Yeah, it looks like a rocks gemstones or whatever fucking
called and diamonds, you know, flawless vvs.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Diamonds.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
And you know, he was like, I'll fuck with you, bro.
He's like I usually charged rappers for a basic you know,
honeycomb setting a on eight thirty grand. He gave me
love price, which was.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
You know, look good, cut it out, good, we'll cut
it out, cut.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
It Yeah, no, you're not gonna cut it out. Maybe
I don't want you.

Speaker 6 (33:07):
Nah, So he told me for eighteth on eighteen he
would do, uh, you can leave it in, and I
don't give a fuck. He was just be talking ship
like yeah, I mean, now, don't cut it up, matter
of factly that the niggas don't getting it anyway.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
But uh, he quoted me at ten thousand for eight
by eight. I was a hook up price thirty thousand,
you know for rappers. And I was like, fuck, all right, cool,
but I got small teeth. Luckily I'm a fat motherfucker,
but I got small teeth, you know, like a shark,
and like a shark, ain't.

Speaker 6 (33:36):
Cricket at cricket. And he was all right, dude, you know,
because I fuck with you. We took him out to
the show the night before we partied on nine to
the Strip Club. We sucked up like seven grand at
the Strip Club, so we were it was a movie,
you know, kirkle Banks party with us like it was dope.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
So he was like, dude, you know what, just gotta
fuck with you. I'll do the ten on ten.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
Uh, natural diamonds like blood diamonds basically because you could
get lab diamonds, which still diamonds we.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Have for the jeweler. We all know about that ship,
but it's.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
Not more not moisting either. I'm talking about like lab
down here. Yeah, and those. He's I caught you at
like sixty five hundred for those, and I was like nah,
Like I was like, man, I'm gonna spend that much money.
I want my ship done right, Like like fuck, I
want the real ship, you know. So I just went
I told him, like, you know what, like do ten thousand,
but how much you charged me for ten on ten?

(34:22):
Like I don't want people to see my guns, Like
I don't want my ship to stop right here.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
I want it to go. You don't want to go
like this at least?

Speaker 6 (34:27):
No, yeah, go to the back end basically, So he
was like, you know what, just because your teeth little,
which I don't know if it was offensive or now,
I don't give a fuck. He's out, I'll do it
for ten thousand, and I was like fuck it, And yeah, bro,
he busted my ship like I have paused, but.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
We did the mold, you know, we sent.

Speaker 6 (34:46):
The payment and he ended up flying out to meet
money bag Yo in La to drop him off a
pair of grills and which was like eighty grand, and
then he just happened to stopped by at the improv
and he brought me my fucking ship and I was
I just.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Remember putting them on.

Speaker 6 (34:59):
It was was like it's like a hood trophy, you know,
like it's just it's just like like fucking car fu
fuck property, fuck buying property, fucking investing money, bus downs.
I remember going to the bathroom in the motherfucker and that,
you know, at the improv and just smiling and just
like damn. It was just one of those moments where
it's just like Damn, that ship paid off.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
You know, like h Like I was like, this is
my ship, you know, And it took me a little
bit to, like you adjusted because they hurt.

Speaker 6 (35:27):
You know, you still got there molded to your fucking teeth,
so if your gums are not used to you know,
you you having shipped in there, obviously it's still metal
and like it's gold, you know, it's gold, literally gold,
so it's white gold. This is white gold. But so anyway,
it just took me a little bit. But after that,
like I went for everything. And that was one of
the conversations we were having today, like I should be worried,
worried about the jokes I'm gonna do. Instead I was
asking my manager, like you think I should wear my.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Grill for the special or not?

Speaker 1 (35:50):
But I didn't want to, well, I don't do it.

Speaker 6 (35:52):
I don't do it when I do shows, especially like
spots where it's not my fans when it because I
don't want to come off as an asshole. People see
the fuck with diamonds in there, and I was like,
you know, especially in the comedy world, you know, com
a lot of communities, they kind of have that.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Humble even though they're loaded. They're not like rappers.

Speaker 6 (36:06):
Rappers might be making a little bit of money and
they reflex all they say they have it all in
cash on them, you know what I'm saying. These motherfuckers
they got their bank accounts loaded, but they don't show
no flashy ship. They drive regular cars. So it's kind
of like frowned upon. But I also feel like we's
a new wave of shit, Like it's it's a young
motherfucker's popping Like Ralph mar Bosa Popp and he got
a car collection, you know, he's always in versace, he

(36:27):
got buzzed down chains, and so it's just like I
feel like it's a new way. Why the fuck we
gotta man, we made it out like we we like
we're supposed to be statistics, you know, from our coming
from our backgrounds and we out here, you know, doing
this ship with these legends, and not no disrespect to them.
We still respect the icons. And I'm a student of
the game, and I absorb game from anybody that I can,

(36:48):
anybody who's been doing it longer than me. Whether they're
more famous or less famous than me, it doesn't matter
to me. I take any game. I'm all ears, even
in my own fuck with you, you got to say
something that might benefit me in one way. So I
always I'm all ears, and I try to take it
all good, even if you say a lot of dumb shit.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
No, Bro, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
That's what they wanted to ask you to, Bro, because
speaking about like the young generation, you guys coming up,
you guys doing you ship.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
The own way, Like Kevin has specialis. But where he's wearing,
like I mean, bro buggers, like he's not wearing he's black.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
No no, no, no, no no, Like that's actually a thing.
Black comedians are. Some of the black commedians are even
flashier than rappers. Like black comedians. They're always known to
and this is fly as fuck in my opinion, Like
they're always the first one to get the Rose Royce
They're always in diamonds, they're always in chains, they're always
in suits, always in nice that pursuits, the ugly Steve Harvey.

(37:38):
You know, they're always that. So a lot of black
black comments are known to be fly as fuck. You
go to a black comedy show like Actual, if you
go to see somebody liked O Hugley or like a Legend,
which most people are going to be black, older people.
Everybody's dressed like to the nines because it's like an event.
Now I go up, if I'll do my special sweats
if I couldn't feel me like, I don't want to

(37:59):
do it because I I don't want to look like
a fucking dyke on stage and shit.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
But but that's what I want to say. Though, Like
for like Kevin Bro like that. I'm trying to remember
which special it was Bro he was talking about.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
There's the one from philadelphiah He's got that big ass.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
He has a big chain, BRO and he has like
a gold Mica. I forget which one it was, Bro,
But I love Kevin Belie. He's the one he did
at the stadium at the Eagle Stadium, I think so
Bro And anyway, so with him and then like him
like obviously being like I mean, sure he's a black community,
so he does whatever, right, but him tapping in with
younger people, bro who for example, like listen, this is

(38:33):
a new wave.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
I don't really care.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
I'm not going to tell you to change shit, but
I want, like I like what you're doing right for example,
like he did that, he's done two streams with kaisonat
right where he's.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Just tapping in with them doing whatever, like just I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
I guess what I'm trying to say is like I
think it's really cool that he's tapping into like the
younger culture and like taking them and running with what
they have as they are, right for example, Like I
think if you told him like, hey, bro, I'm about
to wear my grills, like I'm about to buy a
bus down CARDI for this.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Like it is what it is.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
I don't really see him having a problem with that, right, Nah,
I don't think it's more from what it sounds like.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
It's more of you like no, like listen, I kind
of want to.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Be funny enough you go up there naked, you feel me?

Speaker 6 (39:13):
Like I agree, Like you know, like that's the thing,
like Kat Williams like do you like everybody remembers a
special because it was so fucking funny, Like you think
if you would have bombed, everbody would have just been
some Everbody would have talked about his outfit that green
like the wrench ugly as big ass Bill buck Pin
pronicles Part one, it's ridiculous to be honest, but this
ship was so funny you.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Forget about what the fuck he's wearing because the jokes
are so funny.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Like, but I also think it's his specific style though
his specific style.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Is like him yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And that's what
I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (39:43):
I don't I want to go on stage like I
want to be so funny that I can go on
stage at the white shows where people expect you to
be humble and like kind of in a flann you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
The local But but let me let me ask you
a question about that you've done. Something's burning with Bird Crusher.
I love Tom Sigar's podcast him. I'm not a huge
fan of Crush on me ANSWD with you, but he's somebody, bro.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
You guys know what it is exactly he comes up
to the shows that he takes his shirt off.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
I don't think he's that fine, but like something like that,
Like I don't know, I feel like there is something
respectable about somebody who puts together a nice outfit for
a show, especially a special. I guess, like I don't know,
I feel like you should go up there and shop.
But like, yo, this is this is this is what
it is back homeless, what we do, like this is

(40:29):
me being up here with this ship is like.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
What I feel.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
It's all about authenticity at the end of the day.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Yeah, because I'm also like, I ain't gonna do no
special with those super.

Speaker 6 (40:40):
Bro exactly like they said, like in ticket sales or whatever,
they were like all the tickets gotta be I mean,
the people gotta be like black tire, not black tie,
but like cocktail tire.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Like you know.

Speaker 6 (40:51):
What you're wearing right now, That's what it says. You know,
ain't nobody gonna stop you from coming in because you
ain't got a polo on. But I mean, y'all wearing
that ga shit anyway, the shirt for.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
You y'all got, y'all got collars and man, big on
collar anyway, ye.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Have a shirt on there?

Speaker 1 (41:10):
I mean, I mean, I guess nipples, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (41:14):
I just don't worsh it like that. But I'm saying
I would not worship like that either on stage. But
I'm also not gonna like go extra like I feel
like like I'm, you know, just the black shirt, the
black polo I mean sorry, the black pro Club, the
black jeans, a pair of White Air Forces I got
low key I brought. I brought a pair of I
brought a pair of Neon bass that I might do

(41:35):
it and if they don't effect, if they don't sunk
up the color scheme on the background and ship, if
now I'm gonna get a pair of White Air Forces
and just do like my that's like a Chicago uniform,
you know, black on black, White Air Forces in the
white Sox hat. Yeah, and that's what I plan on
wearing because that's who I am.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
The grills.

Speaker 6 (41:50):
It just became who I am now, just because now
people know me. He got he got the diamond T
because like and it's not it's just like my this
was just my ship. I just I splurged this. You know,
It's something I was wanting. I worked hard for it
and I bought it.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Yeah, people you should. Yeah, some people in the comments
are like, and how would I ask you about it?

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Kind of?

Speaker 6 (42:10):
Sometimes even your own fans will be like a mo
fuck about a girl, he don't know how to act now.
But it's just like, bro, you gotta understand, I ain't
I ain't have ship. I had to, like literally, I
will be at shows texting my friends let me cash,
I mean fifteen bucks, bro, so I could get it
overhome from this fucking show because they get they pay
me thirty bucks cash and I can't depart, like my
bank account got six dollars and if I'm like literally
came from not having ship to being able to say

(42:32):
I paid, you know, ten thousand cash for my teeth,
and I know I'm not doing payments.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
No I don't owe it. No I don't. I'm not
running from it away, no, none of that.

Speaker 6 (42:41):
I also didn't want to be that guy either, Like
I'm not gonna say my credit good enough to get
ten thousand dollars credit line anyway. But but but you
know I didn't, and you know sometimes I do because
as a comedian, you do give a fuck with people think,
because at the end of the day, our job is
what people think. Like you got to do a job
and people got to think it's funny for you to
have said you did a good job. So what people

(43:02):
think does matter. It's just what it is, and that's
just the profession I'm in. That's interesting, you know what
I'm saying. But I think that it's just so genuine
to me who I am as a person. Like if
I went up there and I was just like yeah,
like yeah, I'm better, Like no, I'm still doing my ship.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
I still.

Speaker 6 (43:20):
Still and I'm still like it's a business bro like
because it's a good night. Sometimes it's badin you don't
think I have show. I get the cancel shows. So
I've had to cancel shows in a row sometimes because
I didn't sell en up tickets. You know, it's not
worth a fight for me, It's not worth the staff
working for the venue, you know. So then okay, you
canceled three weekends in a row. Now you don't got
no income for a month. So okay, yeah you made

(43:41):
forty grand last month, but now this month you ain't
making ship and you living in la ain't cheap, you
know what I'm saying. Then you know, I'm not saying
that I'm taking care of my girl, but my girl
lives with me. She doesn't work because I want she
comes down the road with me most of the time.
And you know what, I'm saying that that just kind
of helps me balance myself and so I don't get
out of control. So I'm not at the casino, I say, saying,
fucking that all up that way, I got somebody waiting

(44:02):
for me, you know, after the show or with me
at the show, so I kind of, you know, sometimes
sometimes we need motherfucker kind of keep us on track.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
You know.

Speaker 6 (44:08):
So anyway, Yeah, I don't know. I just feel like
I don't know what the fuck I was saying, to
be honest, but yeah, well but.

Speaker 5 (44:15):
It led me into a question though, because like that's
kind of an interesting perspective, right, because not everyone thinks
about what the comedians going through, especially when they're coming up.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
So what what was that kind of like?

Speaker 5 (44:24):
And well what is that now like now that you
have to balance the income that you're making versus kind
of where you were at before.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Now I got a balance nothing. He was.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
The richest person on this.

Speaker 6 (44:37):
I stand on my money and balance on it. And now, bro,
it sucks because like no, that's cap It sucks because
it's fucking like you. You still got to pay your flights,
your hotels, your food, your team, like everybody has to eat.
You feel me like, it's not like he's not with
me for free. He's got a daughter, a newborn daughter
that he's got to take care of a wife, you know,

(44:59):
like my girl. You know, I gotta pay for my
own shit. I went to the hospital three times, you know,
so I got medical bills. I got like that shit
stopped me for a while from doing shows too, like
my health. So that's why I kind of I kind
of got my shit together a little bit, because you know,
it's not like that's why these ten thousand dollars purchases sometimes, yeah,
you're right, they're fucking retarded. But it's just sometimes like

(45:19):
as a young motherfucker who never had shit, like you
gotta splurs like one time and I'm not saying like,
oh and I already got my chain being made, and
I already got im finna get this and I'm gonna
get this car, and I'm like no, no, no, like
all right, I felt like I already I catched out
on shoes, like I was a sneaker head when I
was younger. My parents would you know, like sometimes they
buy me like what pair of shoes every you know,
three months or whatever, which that was a lot for

(45:40):
a kid, Like sometimes I used to want to get
one shoe a year, you know. So then like eventually,
like I had to stop buying shoes because I was
working for myself. Like I said, I was really bad
into drugs and partying, so like before I could buy
myself anything, I was already like buying drugs or buying
at the bar, fucking up my whole check so I could.
I was dirty as fuck. I wear the same shit
champion hoodie, you know, sweat pants, the same faded fucking jeans,

(46:04):
the same shoes, like you know, for a minute, so
it was just kind of like fuck. So then I
kind of was like, you know what, I don't want
to be dirty no more, Like I want to be
able to get fresh like I used to, like see
my boy, you know, like we will go out and
everybody got like, okay, everybody got like a fig you know,
a decent little fit. I'm not saying design it, but
I would always be in my same shit, and I
would be like because they don't make my size, but really,
it's just even if they did. I couldn't afford that
shit anyway. So I was like, you know what, I

(46:26):
do want to buy enough clothes that I feel like
all right, you know, like if I want to take
a shower, I could take a shower and have a
new outfit every day of the week. And that's only
seven outfits, you feel me, Yeah, But to me, that
was a lot. I had to I had like three
shirts and like two hoodies and like two sweats and
that was just because and it's not anybody's fault. And
I saying that, Oh I was so poor. I had
a life so hard. No, I was just stupid and
I wasted money on stupid shit like now, but I

(46:48):
mean now I'm making more money so well.

Speaker 5 (46:49):
Out of curiosity, though, did that? Do you feel like
that experience helped, like your comedic standpoint now and now,
I'm not saying that you advise taking this route?

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Not him.

Speaker 6 (46:57):
I mean everything, everything, everything I did. I don't regret
anything in my life. I feel like everything has put
me where I'm at today, Like every everything, you know. Yeah,
I wish I wouldn't have had too many health stairs.
I wish I would have been healthier. Maybe I wouldn't have.
Maybe I would be more advanced now in my career.
Maybe I would have already got my special, Maybe I
would have been onto my next I don't know what

(47:18):
the fun could have happened, But you know what, at
the end of the day, we corrected that. You know,
whatever the grace of God or whatever the higher power
may be, I'm able to. I got back healthy enough
to be on tour. And I mean, I remember the
first time I came to Vegas, bro like I couldn't.
It was the first time I was still okay kind
of when we met. I was I was already like
feeling kind of weird every every other day, but nothing

(47:39):
to nothing too like I was still able to give
my full energy at the shows.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
You know.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Then the second time I came, I was staying.

Speaker 6 (47:45):
I got like I remember again, I got like a
decent check from doing shows in Chicago. So I've always
looked up, like, what's the best hotel in Las Vegas?
Everybody said, the wind, the wind, the wind. You know,
I'm not saying I got one of the fucking uh
the panhouses and ship, but I just got a regular
room with the wind, you know, Strip View, like you know,
paid like I don't know, like two grand or some
shit for like a weekend, and it was just like,

(48:09):
I don't know, it was just like it was a
dope experience to be able to show my girl that
me my self experienced it. But I couldn't even walk
down the hallway to get to the lobby to the
casino because I was so fucked.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Up in my health. You know.

Speaker 6 (48:21):
It was just like shit, that shit sucks. So yeah,
I wish I would have done that different than shit.
But now it's just like, all right, i'ma enjoy it now.
Like I said, I got, I got the partying, like
the hard, hard parting is already in my past. I
feel like I was having Vegas right now. So yeah,
you guys are gonna you guys are gonna hear me
say this, but then you're gonna party with me this weekend.
By the end of the day, I'm setting this is
a weekend of celebration. Like I just didn't my special.

(48:43):
I feel healthy.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
I can, I me and my girl can walk the strip.
I don't gotta fucking I can't.

Speaker 6 (48:48):
We didn't leave the hotel last time, because even coming
from the venue to the fucking hotel just to have
to walk through the casino to go to my room
was like too much for me. Bro So just that alone,
like to be able to bro it sucks to say,
but to be able to walk around the casino, and
I have to like and that she gets embarrassing because
there was points where I would almost miss flights because
I couldn't make it on time to the gate because

(49:09):
I was so drenched in sweat because I couldn't breathe.
So even if I could have just not even ran,
if I could just walk out a normal pace, I
would be okay, but I would have to take breaks.
I mean, he could ask him he was with me
on tour, like walking down the hallway of a hotel.
You know, it took me a while, not because, like
I said, not because I was so not used to
being that big, but it was just because my health wise,

(49:29):
my lungs. There was liquid and my lungs and it
just got real bad. But so this time around, I'm
gonna enjoy that shit, you know. But and you know,
just I don't know, like everything's like I'm adapt through
to everything, I guess.

Speaker 4 (49:40):
So on that note, we obviously you know Chewy and
I interviewed you a year year and a half ago.
To see where you've went in the last year is
honestly crazy. The fact that you know you're doing like
a special Tomorrow night is you know, crazy, just like
how your life has changed over the last year.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
What my question for you would be is.

Speaker 4 (50:07):
Whether it's something you see you know, a year from now,
two years from now, or whether it's a goal of yours.
You know, what is something you're pushing for as a
comedian in the next twelve to twenty four months.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
Only myself as a creative only to be able to
write better shit, not lose the drive. And I haven't
lost the I'm still hungry. I'm still like, I'm still
trying to write hit. So I'm not trying to I'm
not consistent. I'm not I'm not I'm not satisfied with bullshit.
I still want to put out the best product that
I can. Unfortunately, because I've been busy with touring, and

(50:43):
because I've also had the health stuff, and also now
I have a girl, a girlfriend who lives with me
or like, like, obviously it's different when you have a girlfriend,
but when somebody moves in with you, I mean, your
life shifts tonight. You know what I'm saying, I'm not
gonna stay home and write all night or be able
to go out and hang at the spots and work
on material because you also got to do bind your
life a little bit, you know, have a little balance exactly.
So that kind of has also slowed me down. You know,

(51:05):
I'm not saying it's her at all, Like, no, it's not.
I wouldn't trained. I wouldn't. I would have traded for anything, right,
But I just want to, like, I just want to
just be get in trouble time I come on the podcast,
I'm making sure I'm covering up.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
I'm covering up all my tracks. I gotta go back
to my shot.

Speaker 6 (51:24):
So it's just like, yeah, man, you know, it's just
I just want to be able to write off. That's
that's my goal. I don't give I'm not gonna say
I want to do theaters next year or arenas in
three years or five years.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
Yeah, I'm cool with clubs, bro, I.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
Don't need it's just constantly increasing your craft, right like
where you're I know that.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
If I get my want to yeah, let's I know.

Speaker 6 (51:48):
It's like I said before, as long as you focus
on the product, it will sell itself. I'm not looking
I'm not looking for anything financially more than what I'm
already achieving. Besides more consistency, maybe grow my market a
little bit. I'm making a killing down south in the
Midwest because I'm from Chicago, and then out west because
people think that I'm from California, they think from it,

(52:09):
and now that I live in LA I've been able
to kind of, like I said, if I have a
show in California, it's gonna sell out. That's a given.
You know what I'm saying. Give me a week to
sell it. I'll sell it out a matter if it's
one hundred people or four hundred people, it will. I
mean obviously say I'll do a thousand seater, but yeah,
you know, and then we do multiple shows and shit,
so yeah, sometimes we do sell over a thousand tickets.
So anyway, like, maybe have that consistency. And I don't

(52:29):
even want a full weekend everywhere. If I can go
to Richmond, Virginia and sell out one show, I'm cool
with that. As long as I can go anywhere and
sell out one show, are three hundred people show, I
don't need, know nothing crazy and as long as I
can keep that consistently, as I get better as a
comic and become, you know, be able to grow my craft,
become a better comic, a better writer. Shit, I know
everything else will fall into place on his own. And

(52:52):
I'm not even worried about that shit at all. Right now,
though there is, like there's been, like obviously, as you grow,
more opportunities come. You know, I always told myself, don't
want to be an actor. There's a lot of pop. Yeah,
there's a lot of there's a lot of comedians that
that come into game. They don't even like to be comics.
They want to be actors. They want to be movie stars, superstars.
So they get into comedy, and a lot of them
do breakout with comedy. Like you know, Jim Carrey hasn't

(53:14):
done stand up in a long time, but that's how
he started. Adam Sandler started doing stand up. I'm saying,
some of the biggest movies starts started doing stand up.
So I mean, I don't that was never my intention.
I always said fuck acting. I never took it seriously.
I never looked into auditions. But now you've well, now
I don't have the interests, but my agency is coming.
They have the leader of the this asient and her

(53:37):
name is Sarafina and an Asian agent agent.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Yeah it's Chinese, but that was exactly when she came.

Speaker 6 (53:50):
And she's the one that takes comedians touring comedians under
the agency and gets the mental roles, you know. So
she was real interested in me after she saw I'm
not exactly sure what she saw for me. I believe
I did.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
I recently did.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (54:05):
I also did a Kevin Hart series XM recording. Uh,
it's just the new show that they just picked up
and uh, and I did that before I did the special,
So they kind of wanted to do that first to
see how that performed before they gave me the special.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
So I did that first.

Speaker 6 (54:17):
Anyway, that got me a lot, maybe not traction from
people or new people, but they got me traction from
executives because when she want once executives and agents and
talent people that matter behind the scenes see that, Oh
somebody another production company took him seriously and he executed
that we can take a risk on him. So now
the agent has came in and she's like, you know
what I got Like, I'm not I'm not gonna say

(54:39):
I'm gonna start in the next mission.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Impossible.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
No, but she she's like, I want to give you work,
you know, so she sent me out. I already did
my first audition last maybe last week. I mean, did
I get the part?

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Probably funk? No, yo, But what's your what's your attitude
about that?

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Though?

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Like do I like?

Speaker 6 (54:54):
I used to say fuck that, but now it was
just like ship, if it's money on the table, why
would I leave it in your.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
FIELMA say so like doing it because maybe the agency
comes to you and like, you know, having no interest,
be like fuck the bag might be right, like do
you have any interest.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
In doing that?

Speaker 2 (55:08):
Where it's like being I don't know, No, I don't.

Speaker 6 (55:11):
But there's also a difference between movie and not sorry
not People say television is dead, people say that you
know and that kind of you. It is kind of
a fact. But there is still so many people in America.
There's more people in America with TVs than the internet.
You know what I'm saying. At the end of the day,
you feel me like people got this old motherfuckers that
have houses TVs and I don't got no Facebook account,

(55:32):
I don't an email. There's still like millions of people
that watch TV. Yeah, do everything has the high the
highest ratings. No, But it's also like because nobody watching
shit like anymore. Most people watch the ship on the
phone and shit later on, but they're still watching the
distribution that whatever that network produced is still watching. It
just doesn't matter I you're watching it.

Speaker 5 (55:50):
Especially there's a young demographic on YouTube right that doesn't.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
Exactly are still there, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (55:56):
But so what I was curious about was like what
you have to have some sort of like a marketing
strategy that you want to achieve like towards the back end. Right,
So if maybe if it's not film that you want
to go towards, what's what's kind of in your mind
that's kind of gonna be the game changer for podcasting. Bro.

Speaker 6 (56:09):
I had a podcast that was already like popping out,
but I'm talking yeah like that. I had already created
a call following back home with that ship. Like I
was already like like hometown popular. I don't say hometown famous,
but my shows were sell out in Aurora already like
for the past year before I even got on the road.
And then my podcast like like people follow my podcast

(56:31):
from like Nebraska, so people were starting to tune in
from other places just because my ship was like raw
and funny. Unfortunately, I mean, like you guys know, I mean,
this ship is all timing. So I am I gonna
fucking land to a different city and have to pull
my ship out every week like this, And it's just
not possible for me because especially without my health shit
again like now, yeah, maybe I can get into it,

(56:52):
but I also gott to carry murch.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
Around, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
So it's like it's a lot.

Speaker 6 (56:57):
It's a lot, but I feel like I would much
rather become if anything, for me, I would rather have
something that have control over, like my stand up. So
the podcast, I've already done that. I already know how
to do it. I already know how to make a
great podcast. Like again, this is an interview for him,
and we're doing an interview and that you get, we're asking.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
About my career.

Speaker 6 (57:13):
But if I just had to talk into a mic
every week like what I was already doing, I'll just
pull up some funny shit, talk shit about it, you know,
tell a funny story like I fuck, you know, I
was fucking my bitch, and you know, like I fell
off the bed, you know, some dumbest shit, but like
that will keep people engaged. And I already know I'm
good and funny at that. I just I just like
have been focused on other shit. So I feel like,
even if I never get a movie, bro, my pod Like,

(57:36):
I feel like the stand up shit is good and
I'm great at it, but I know that this podcast
shit is just as equal, if not even better. Uh
So I ain't worried, bro, Like, I'm good, Like I'll
be good like because all this shit isn't here.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
You know, it isn't. My heart is in't Here's who
I am. The product is me. You feel me, so
you can't. I'm not an athlete.

Speaker 6 (57:54):
It's not like Bill burd said the best Like somebody's like,
don't you feel like your prime yeers are behind you? No, bitch,
I'm not a fuck like if I was Michael Jordan, maybe, yeah,
I'm not. I can't dunk like before, but as a
comic you can. As long as your brain and you're
willing to create and ship, you can still make hits.
I mean shit, look at Bill Burke. He only gets
better every fucking special.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Yeah, I heard Monique say that I'm Breakfast Club. She
was like, I know, but what she said it was
really important though. I think it's her fucking weird husband.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
She was like, he was like, when you're thirty five
in basketball, Bro, you watched when you're thirty five in comedy, Bro,
you seasoned. And I think that is the longevity of
this specific game, right, because that just brings into everything else, right, podcast,
whatever you want to do.

Speaker 6 (58:34):
But yeah, and that also also becomes like longevity, like
lifestyle too, Like I know that I know that every
time I come to Vegas, I'm not gonna be able
to suck it up. And eventually she gotta stop. I
stopped drinking at every show kind of been going on
one right now because I've been feeling really good and
especially like she's been going really good, you know, so
it's just like fuck. But I know once that I

(58:55):
record the special halt of breaks a little bit, you know,
and uh and ship you know, dial back in we know,
getting special, we celebrate and next thing shows shows.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
Shows, will will Kevin Harvey there tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
I don't think so I don't think that Mouck even
know who is gonna be recording.

Speaker 4 (59:13):
Yeah, Hey, so like this kind of a random question
or to go back a little bit. And I think
a lot of people that are huge fans of like
comedians would be curious on this. I'm curious on like
preparing for preparing for like a show like this or
just like preparing for honestly, like a tour in general.

(59:36):
What what goes into like preparation as a comedian. So
like you know, basketball, football players, athletes, whatever, they're they're
fucking training, they're doing this that and whatever do you
do you like hand right, actual like fucking like you know,
jokes and ship, Like talk to me a little bit
about like preparation.

Speaker 6 (59:57):
Not anymore, Like I kind of talked about this. That's
time too, and and I feel like it's I've changed
a lot from then till now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Also, before.

Speaker 6 (01:00:06):
Before I got on the road, I was starting to
get real comfortable back home, and then people stopped coming
to my shows because it would be like the same
ship over and over because I was doing word for word,
word for word every set. So my homies were like, dude,
you're funny. We're not saying you're not funny, but we
heard the ship, like yeah, why would we go again. Yeah,
so yeah, exactly. So I was like, all right, They're like, dude,

(01:00:27):
once you can figure out how to be yourself, which
is what I'm doing now with the crowd, with being aggressive, roast,
that's who I am. That's that's the person I am
with you guys met me, you know, you know me.
That's just who I am as a person. So they're like,
once you can adapt that person on stage, you're going
to blow up. And sure enough, bro, Like it almost
happened instantly once I was able to break out of
that shell and do that. Now, fortunately, with that is

(01:00:47):
just that you might get drunk. I'm like, and what
happened to me a lot of times that I will
get drunk and I'll feel like that was my best
set in the world. So now in your head you're like,
I gotta be drunk.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
To do the best set. That needs a bad Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
Yeah, and even though the shows are bangers, you're livering.

Speaker 5 (01:01:03):
You feel me like where all the legends go though,
right Unfortunately.

Speaker 6 (01:01:08):
So then it was just kind of like I ended
up just kind of like winging there for a long time.
But then once Renee put me on tour and I
knew I had to have my tight twenty My goal
is to at that point, I didn't have as many
followers as him, so I would never be able to
sell the tickets i'm selling now.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Even so my goal was like, what.

Speaker 6 (01:01:24):
If I don't blow up, well, let me just kill
it so tight with these twenty minutes, just like I
didn't Vegas when I came with him. That people and
that is my brother, and we always compete and we
always tell each other because then he's also open for me,
and it's a bitch, I'm gonna bury you, like I'm
gonna make sure, like like our goal with each other
is we're like lions, like I want.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
To make sure motherfuckers forget they came to see you.
And it's just but it's just like friends.

Speaker 6 (01:01:47):
It comes from friendly competition, bro, and and so sometimes
it hurts cause it's just like fuck, like I had
six hundred people that about takes to see me, and
you just did better than me, and like, and then
it sucks now because he's probably three four times as
more popular as me, especially in California.

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
So this motherfucker. All he needed to do is like
you ever seen an episode of SpongeBob where they're doing
stand up and then like I think Squid was trying
to like perform and it just keeps getting.

Speaker 6 (01:02:15):
Booed, and the SpongeBob shows his hand and the people
just go crazy. So it's like that all he has
to do is show his face and the people go nuts.
So it's like fuck like, but I also have been
putting situations where Fluffy has dropped in on my shows
and he's gone up. Now I gotta go after Fluffy.
These people just lost their fucking mind. They paid twenty
finals to see me, who they're not even sure is
going to be funny, and the goat came on stage.

(01:02:37):
Who what happens next? So anyway, but that shit, that's Hollywood.
You never know what you got to follow, so it
just makes you a better comic and ship you feel.

Speaker 4 (01:02:46):
You feel moving to like, you know, La Hollywood area,
just be surrounded by like that culture has made you better,
you think.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
So you think LA is a better comedy hub than
anywhere else.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
I've never done comedy York, Like I've never been able
to say tell you you've never done a show York.
I've never like I've done the shows in New York,
but I've never done like spots in New York. So
it's a difference.

Speaker 6 (01:03:09):
Like I like you, I could live in Chicago and
flying to LA and kill it because those are my
fans that came to see me. But I'm also sometimes
that there's spots in LA where like I got Donelle
Rawlings on the lineup T T. Tim Dillon, you know, ship,
David Spade, you know sometimes Bill Bird drops in Chappelle.
You know, like you never know who the fucking might
be and and yeah, so you never know who the

(01:03:29):
fucking might be and shit, so it prepares you, like
ship bro. Like last week I had the fund with
Donald Roynis three or four different times, and like that
motherfucker is like so high energy, Like we did a
fucking show with Jimmy Yang.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
I don't know if you know who. He's an Asian comic.
He's been on movies like Always Love Hard.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Has he done stuff on on on Amazon?

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Yeah, I believe so he's kind of got like a
part in his hair.

Speaker 6 (01:03:50):
Yeah, anyway, but this motherfucker like he sold out the
show basically on his own and it's all Asian people,
so then it's don Nelle than me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
But I'm like, I don't give a fuck. It's don
Nell's like he's black. He doesn't like he's fast paced.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
But he is a generally white crowd. Well I mean
because of show.

Speaker 6 (01:04:05):
Yeah, but it's still a black comic and he's still
it kills in any room regardless. But I'm in my head,
I'm like, all right, these are Asians, like they're more respectful.
He's I know, he's real like aggressive too, so he
might not do his hot and I'll be able to
come around the corner and like maybe try to write
off his energy. But ship this motherfucker. I didn't know
he speaks Chinese because he was in the military, so
he starts calling Chinese. So just when you think I

(01:04:32):
got in the bag, SiGe, motherfucker know you don't.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
And then you gotta go up there and learn Chinese.

Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
I'm becoming better and better, and that ship only makes
you better. Yeah, like being around greatness only makes you better.
Like if you the funniest motherfucker in your circle, you
better give a circle.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:04:51):
I always like to learn and know. Yeah, do I
come in the mindset like I'm gonna be the best
on this show?

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Yes? Am I always that? No?

Speaker 6 (01:04:58):
And it's always a learning experien like, all right, I
need to do that and none of that, and and
I can see the difference now, just like I mean,
just this week I did hell of Spots and I
fucking I was just mopping the fucking floor, like you know,
it just happened so effortlessly, you know, And it's because
of the grind you keep doing it and ship. But
I don't know, it's just like, yeah, being in La
obviously is you know, even in Chicago, no matter how

(01:05:20):
funny people are, even if you got somebody that does
kill the show right before you, there's something about star
power that even if the person didn't do that well,
the star power just the people, the fact that people
can't believe that they're standing in front of this person.
Like you imagine going to a belly room show that's
not sold out. It's probably got you know, people say
ninety people fit in that room and there's forty people there,
and then fucking Chris Rock drops.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Him right right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
It's like they're like, oh my god, I can see
Chris Rock for twenty five dollars, he's right here in
front of me.

Speaker 6 (01:05:49):
Fuck yeah, So I don't know even if I am,
even if he just kind of was riffing premises, you know,
new material that wasn't real here it figured it out yet,
and then I go up and start doing you know
my special, Yeah, the hits that still might not work
just because they're like noa that was Chris Rock, you remember, Like,
so it just also becomes, yeah, you having not only

(01:06:12):
to follow people that are hilarious, but also having to
compete with their likability and celebrity status.

Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
Really, I'm nobody no matter what you are.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
And I know we gotta wrap up, but who's been
like the person that you've been, like right before on
where you've been the most nervous of Like fuck.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
It almost threw up the other day I had to
follow down again. It was that day.

Speaker 6 (01:06:37):
It was that day, you know, I mean too, Like,
I just think that with me and him, we had
a little bit of tention because he dropped, really he
dropped on Netflix special and there was a joke that
you know, I don't know if it's true or not.
You know, Renee felt like it was taken from him
because if you compare the clips from when Renee dropped,
it was way before his special drop, and you compare
the clips, you know, they're almost verbatim exactly, it's the same,

(01:07:00):
But I cannot confirm or deny that the joke was stolen.
I do, right, and I do remember seeing Donell at
the last factor while Renee was doing that joke. Matter
of fact, probably even the night he clipped it. So
so yeah, so I mean, you know, and I felt like,
I'm so loyal to Renee, and Renee he didn't want
to say anything because you know, now the special specially

(01:07:23):
drops on the Netflix and he's already on the works
with Netflix, so he has political So I felt at
that point I didn't have no offer. I never even
seen Donell or we had seen him once, but I
was like, he's not cool with me, like he don't
give a fuck. So I kind of went and called
him out on my Instagram. I never tagged him anything,
but I put up a status and I didn't realize
that my story was gonna get like forty thousand views

(01:07:43):
and shit. So it's like, I feel like maybe that
shit got back to him, like maybe they're not He
probably didn't know who the fucking floors was, but maybe
the fact that somebody called him on people and there's
a lot of comics that follow me people with big names,
so you know, they might have sent it to him.

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
Hey, what the fuck? You know, what's was going on
with this?

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
So I feel like maybe he knew.

Speaker 6 (01:07:59):
So I feel like maybe that's why we couldn't Me
and him, like we couldn't really connect. There was a
point where we were out drinking and he kind of
like we went out one of the nights with me
and my homie went out and he was with us,
and it was just kind of like, I mean, that was.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
Notkwardy weren't think he knew.

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
I don't think, you know, like that.

Speaker 6 (01:08:17):
I can't confirm that because I just felt he didn't
give a fuck who the fuck I was. You know,
he was there with with you know, I don't want
to put his business out there.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
He just having fun.

Speaker 6 (01:08:24):
So so anyway, I don't know if that's what it was,
but shit, it almost felt like it in my head.
And then every time he went up he's just such
a good comic. Then in my househo in my head
about how hard, how funny he was, and how hard
he was killing that. In my head, I was like, this, motherfucker, No,
it's me that called him out, and he's doing this
on purpose. He hates me, but I mean, no, it's

(01:08:45):
not that you always need as a comic. Nobody want
to nobody's gonna take it lightly on you, bitch. I
want to bury you to you feel me. So I
was about to go on stage and it was just
like my girl was there. He was there, and I
was just like bro, like.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
He was killing bro.

Speaker 6 (01:09:01):
Like he's slapping the piano, He's all over the like
I just I have high energy, but I don't got
that energy and I don't have.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
That experience those credits, Like I mean that motherfuck got
out there. I was like I'm rich, bitch. The crowd.

Speaker 6 (01:09:15):
Like you feeling like, oh my god. It was just
like like you know what I'm saying. But I went
up there, and that's when you see the work that
somebody is put in, Like I didn't that I do better, No,
but I held my own. I still my props after
like it was cool, you know, and and ship that.
That's that was one of the times where I definitely
felt extremely nervous. And then other than that, I would

(01:09:37):
have to say that it's just Renee Bro, Like Renee
Renee is just a fucking his energy is so intense
and it's almost like since I did to him, like
I didn't say I want to say that it all tour,
but there's a few nights where I know that we
both wanted to ship on each other, and there was
nice where he got it, you know, and there was
not like there was nights where I'm like, I don't know,

(01:09:58):
like this crowd sucks, and then he would go up
there and just sure and it's like, oh no, like
I just didn't get him.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Harder.

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
And there's nights where he was like, oh yeah, like
I'm gonna be I'm a i'm a I'm gonna kill
this ship. And then I would go up there and
I'll just you know, whether it was something of CrowdWork
moment or my material just flowed that night, they were
just extra connected. I would you know, sometimes people would
be like you should have been closing out the show,
And I know there are times where people have said
that to him about me, so that him, I think

(01:10:25):
that not rivalry I would never call it, but that
friendship we have where we push each other. It's definitely
what's made me a better comic, where I'm able to
be able to follow Donelle. Yeah, you know, and I'm
also you guys are still feel like super close.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
That's my brother. He's flying out tomorrow just to watch
my specially.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
And then your show was the first time I saw
him brother.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
That show was so funny. The leg yeah he does that,
but like his whole set was so fucking funny.

Speaker 6 (01:10:50):
It's so you know what I'm saying, kind of like
that's why he's where he's at because he's the truth.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
But yeah, yeah, no, he's funny, bro. But we don't
want to anymore now for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
I know the slots waiting for me to crack them
down there.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
I need to go flow at least the horse down.
We just want to give you a round, brock. Give
it your flowers. It's beautiful to see what you've done.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
You should be so proud of yourself for your shoes,
so much your socks. Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
But it's cool, but these are base because you don't
know nothing about that hell or not.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
The socks.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
These are.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
The flowers. But we appreciate you, bro, Thank you so
much to me.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
And I want before you'll cut through that one day
shout out to y'all because there's so many podcasts that
I've gone on, people that I've started with that are
no longer around. You know, a lot of my boys
didn't survive, like bro. Even even if the people are
still cool, the holes are still cool. It's just scheduling
gets in the way. People get tired of nobody watching
their ship.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:11:49):
Sometimes ship just don't hit, or sometimes one thing will
hit and then you just dry out. It's just a
lot of ship that comes into play, not only just scheduling,
but even keeping the content fresh. And then again maybe
thoughts that you know. I'm sure you guys have bumped
heads a couple of times and just to be able
to get over that and keep the product coming, like
I'm saying, like it will. Everything will pay off in
the end. So congratulations to your consistency.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
Welcome to the new member and ship or somebody else
got fired. You can cut that down.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
Yeah we lost pieces.

Speaker 6 (01:12:22):
Yeah been so congratulations and I hope that should. I
hope we can run it back one more time next
time I'm here.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
Yeah. Wait, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Hey, make sure when well, do you know when it's
roughly gonna come out of?

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
No no idea, bro. Could it could be It could
be four months, or it could be a year.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Whatever it is. Bro, whenever it is, will have shipped
out for.

Speaker 6 (01:12:42):
Yeah, maybe maybe I'll do like a little podcast run
to promote it. You know, maybe we just said something. Yeah,
a forty minute flight away. Now that well last time
I came from Chicago. But yeah, I'm laying now, so
come up.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
That war.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
Like your work. Definitely love to go out there.

Speaker 3 (01:12:57):
But hey, man, we appreciate you, bro, Thank you so much.
Good luck tomorrow. I can't wait to be there. I
know we're all excited.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
Man, your manager asleep, but it's cool. He stole my
milky way, but fuck it. Hey he drank. He drank
all the booze past stole.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
Away.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Hey, we appreciate you guys. Will see you guys in
the next one. All right, now, he's good.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
We heard good.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
Oh that was good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
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